[Lxc-users] LXC on Debian Squeeze

[Frank Bauer]

Hi list.

Quick question: does LXC and lxc tools work on current 32 bit x86
Debian Squeeze for you?

Background:

I had my first encounter with LXC exactly one year ago when Debian
project made clear Linux-VServer will be dropped in favor of LXC after
Squeeze is released. Debian had kernel 2.6.29 at that time and basic
LXC stuff worked for me (i.e. I was able to create a container and
play in it).

My second attempt to get into LXC was earlier this year (February,
March?) with Debian kernel 2.6.30 and lxc tools 6.5.
Again, it worked for me and my small test cases (networking inside
LXC, Alsa inside LXC, etc.)

However, now with Debian kernel 2.6.32 and lxc tools 7.x I can't start
my containers (both the old ones and completely new ones created by
debootstrap as usual).
This is the only output I get:

 squeeze:~# lxc-start -n container
 lxc-start: inherited fd 7 on pipe:[4220]
 lxc-start: inherited fd 9 on pipe:[4224]
 squeeze:~#

 squeeze:~# lxc-info -n container
 'container' is STOPPED
 squeeze:~#

Nothing in syslog.
My config looks e.g. like this:

 lxc.tty = 4
 lxc.pts = 1024
 lxc.rootfs = /root/container/rootfs
 lxc.utsname = container
 lxc.cgroup.devices.deny = a
 # /dev/null and zero
 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:3 rwm
 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:5 rwm
 # consoles
 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 5:1 rwm
 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 5:0 rwm
 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 4:0 rwm
 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 4:1 rwm
 # /dev/{,u}random
 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:9 rwm
 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:8 rwm
 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 136:* rwm
 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 5:2 rwm
 # rtc
 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 254:0 rwm

lxc-checkconfig says everything is enabled except Cgroup memory controler.

Any idea what might be wrong?

Thanks for your thoughts
Frank